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Japan Ratifies World's Biggest Free Trade Deal Involving China, ASEAN

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JAKARTA POST
 
Japan ratified on Friday the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a mega trade agreement also involving China, Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Foreign Ministry said.
Tokyo deposited its ratification instrument with the ASEAN Secretariat, making...

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Japan’s Toshiba Chairman Fails To Win Shareholder Approval

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AP NEWS
 
Battered Japanese nuclear and electronics giant Toshiba Corp. faced off with shareholders Friday, seeking to shake off serious questions about governance at the once revered brand.
After a meeting lasting nearly three hours, Tokyo-based Toshiba failed to win shareholder approval for the...

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Japan To Replace Bond Advisory Panel With New One As COVID Complicates Debt Woes

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REUTERS
 
SummaryNearly 2-decade-old panel warned of need for fiscal healthPanel helped lay groundwork for debt-issuance plansGovt to create new panel as replacement, details undecidedAbolishment may worry bond market given Japan's huge debt 
Japan will abolish on Thursday a nearly two-decade-old...

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Japan’s Face Recognition Technology Confronted By Challenges In Handling Personal Data

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
In a room of an office building in central Tokyo, photos of people’s faces flashed up one after another on computer screens. As security cameras operated around them, several employees checked these photos of real people from all walks of life — company workers, homemakers, senio...

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Iceye Establishes Office To Serve Japanese Market

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SPACE NEWS
 
Iceye is expanding to serve the Japanese market with the support of Makoto Higashi, the former Japan Space Imaging Corp. CEO and president, who will serve as Iceye’s general manager in Japan.
Within a year, Iceye plans to open an office in Tokyo and begin serving Japanese government ...

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Japan Proposes Four-Day Working Week To Improve Work-Life Balance

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DW.COM
 
The Japanese government has just unveiled its annual economic policy guidelines, which include new recommendations that companies permit their staff to opt to work four days a week instead of the typical five.
Japan's famously hard-working salarymen — and, increasingly, salarywomen — are...

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Japanese Stocks Slump as Hawkish Fed Damps Cyclical Appeal

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BLOOMBERG
 
Japanese stocks declined by the most in almost four months, extending losses from late last week as hawkish comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve crushed the reflation trade that had driven the market earlier this year.
The selloff briefly sent the Nikkei 225 Stock Average down as mu...

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Recruit Hopes To Offer ‘Single Click’ Approach To Changing Jobs

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Recruit Holdings Co. President Hisayuki Idekoba said his firm aims to offer job seekers a “single click” approach to changing jobs by accelerating investment in information technology and promoting mergers and acquisitions in the human resources business.
“I want to create a worl...

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97% Of Surveyed Major Japanese Firms Plan Workplace COVID Vaccinations

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JAPAN TODAY
 
About 97 percent of 116 major Japanese companies responding to a survey have said they plan to conduct workplace COVID-19 vaccinations, covering at least 2 million people.
The outcome of the Kyodo News survey, released Saturday, also showed that 59 percent of the companies either pl...

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ANA, JAL Use Biofuels On Domestic Flights

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
All Nippon Airways Co. and Japan Airlines Co. announced separately Friday that they used sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) on regular domestic flights the previous day.
SAF are plant-derived aviation fuels jointly developed by IHI Corp., Mitsubishi Power Ltd., and other firms in a...

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